This is another extract and grain recipe that I converted to all-grain. I had not made this beer in a while (nearly four years!) and New Year’s Eve in 2017 seemed as good a time as any to turn it out again.

The ingredients, purchased from the local home brew store, consisted of:

8 pounds Pilsner Malt

1/2 pound Carafa II

1/2 pound 80° Crystal Malt

1/2 pound Caramunich Malt

24 ounces honey

1 ounce Centennial hops (9.7% alpha acid)

1 ounce Nugget hops (13.3% alpha acid)

1 ounce Columbus hops (17.0% alpha acid)

White Labs British Ale Yeast (WLP 005)

Honey Brown IPA – also known as Hnedý Medveď (Brown Bear)

My targets, based on my brewing software, are:

Original Gravity: 1.061

Final Gravity: 1.010

ABV: 6.6%

106 IBU

23° Lovibond

First runnings came out pretty dark…

Hnedý Medveď? More like Čierny Medveď!

…but ended up being diluted some during the sparge. It was a nice, dark brown when I it was time to keg it about four weeks after the brew day.

Batch 14 – pre-kegging sample

I hit the original and final gravities, too! All in all, everything came out great!!